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nearing the completion of his twenty-eighth year in this branch. He, as well as the few of his surviving contemporaries, have witnessed an era in railroad improvement and development unrivaled by that of any other artery of commerce, and it may be, have seen the very near approach to per- fection in the art. The original broad- gauge track, the engine with hand brake and tallow eup, have all given way to the modern steel rail, the universal standard gauge, the air brake and lubricator and the injector. The p'odding 14 to 20 mile speed is no longer on the time card, but a rate anywhere from 35 to 112 miles an hour has the call and is within the scope of possi- bilities of the modern locomotive.
Mr. Goudy was born in Ashland Coun- ty, O., October 31, 1842. His father, Thomas Goudy, was a miller, and during Elijah's boyhood he was making a hand in the mill when he ought to have been in school. He worked in a woolen factory a few years, after leaving the parental roof, and being a lover of machinery, he applied for a place on the railroad and was put to braking.
Mr. Goudy's father was born in Penn- sylvania in 1812. He married Catherine Hiser, who died in 1892, being the mother of nine children, of whom Elijah is the fifth. The other surviving ones are: Susan, wife of Wm. Zimmerman, of Grand Rapids, Mich .; Martha, John, of Louisville, Ky., and Cassie, wife of John Temple, of Lan- caster County, Neb.
Our subjeet was married in Jackson Connty, Ind., in September, 1870, to Laura Reno. Their only child, Effie M., was born in 1873.
Mr. Gondy's time has been so occupied with his particular line of work that he has had little opportunity for social intercourse, or for political activity, if he so desired. He has been a hard worker all his life, yet his labors can not be said to have been without substantial reward. He could re- tire from the road with ample means to provide for the wants of his household in- definitely, but his temperament is such that he could not be contented in idleness even had he the fortune of a Vanderbilt. He is a member of the brotherhood, but aside from this has no other fraternal connections except with the Masonic order.
The Goudys are of German descent, our
subject's grandfather, Thomas Goudy, be- ing near to the parent stock, and a Penn- sylvanian by birth.
JOHN W. MCCARTY, Washington's effi- cient postmaster and popular Democrat, was born in County Clare, Ireland, May 17, 1861. In 1863 his parents left "Old Ire- land " for America, landed at New York and spent their first two years in liberty's land in New Jersey. They then eame west and cast their lots with the people of Daviess County for the next four years. The western fever then took possession of them and this time their journey was ended at Leavenworth, Kan. There John W. McCarty grew up and was educated in the city schools. He came back to. Daviess County in 1870 and after further attendance upon the parochial schools of Washington he engaged in business. He was in the gents' furnishing line at Peters- burg, Ind., from 1880 to 1884. He then opened out in the livery business at the same point. In 1886 he became the Democratie candidate for Circuit Court Clerk of Pike County, but that was not a Democratic year and he was defeated at the polls as was the entire ticket. Leaving Petersburg, Mr. McCarty accepted a posi- tion as bookkeeper with his brother P. R. McCarty, then merchandising at Vincennes. In 1887 he came back to Daviess County and built the livery barn on Third and Van Trees Streets, and engaged in the livery business from which he retired when he was appointed to the position of postmaster of Washington. He took possession of the offiee in March, 1894, and the administra- tion of the affairs of the office since he took charge has been honest and efficient. He has shown that same capacity for conserva- tive and progressive business that has characterized him all through life. His arrangement of the office for the public convenience is the best and his hours for the opening and closing of the windows are made to suit the toiler as well as the merchant. He has succeeded in having Washington placed in the list of second class postoffices, raising it from a third class office and placing it in line entitling it to free delivery service. Mr. MeCarty has been an active worker in polities since he became of age. In 1890 he was made Chairman of the Daviess County Central Committee, and in this capacity his services
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were telling, indicating marked ability as an organizer. This position he held again in 1892. In that year, at the inauguration of President Cleveland, Mr. McCarty was chosen as one of the aides from Indiana in the inaugural procession.
He was married in Washington May 25, 1892, to Jennie, danghter of the late Thomas Denver. Mr. and Mrs. McCarty's children are C. Walter and Margaret. . Mr. MeCarty is one of five children of Michael McC'arty and wife. They are P. R. Mc- Carty of Vincennes; D. J. McCarty of Denver, Col .; Delia; Ellen, widow of Thomas Baxter; Mary, wife of James Bradley, all of Denver, Col .; and the sub- ject of this review. Mr. and Mrs. McCarty and children are members of the Catholic Church and number among the leading families of Washington.
HON. JOHN H. O'NEALL was born in New Burry, S. C., October 30, 1837. His parents were Henry M. and Betsie (Ed- mundson) O'Neall, both natives of South Carolina. The father was a son of Henry and Mary (Miles) O'Neall, also natives of the Palmetto State. Henry O'Neall was a son of William O'Neall, a native of Delaware, and a grandson of Hugh O'Neall, a native of Ireland, from whence he came in 1730. He first set- tled in Delaware, then in South Caro- lina. Hugh O'Neall married Annie Cox, who bore him seven sons. The wife of William O'Neall was Mary Frost, and the wife of Henry O'Neall was Mary Miles. Betsie Edmundson, the mother of our sub- ject, was a daughter of John Edmund- son, and her mother's maiden name was Smith.
John H. O'Neall was deprived of a father and mother at the age of six years. At their deaths he and two sisters younger than himself were taken by their grand- father, Henry O'Neall, and brought (August 2, 1844,) to Daviess County, Ind., where he had settled in 1824, becoming a pioneer of the county, in which he resided until his death, which occurred in 1852 at the age of seventy-six years.
The subject of this review is a Hoosier almost to the manner born, for he was not quite seven years old when brought to the state. He graduated from the Indiana State University in 1862. He began the study of law under guidance of William 4
Mack, Terre Hante, entered law depart- ment of the Michigan State University, whence he graduated in June 1864. Im- mediately afterward he opened a law office in Washington, and in 1866 was elected as a Democrat to the Legislature as a repre- sentative from Daviess County. In 1873 Governor Hendrieks appointed him prose- enting attorney for the circuit court, Vin- rennes cireuit, and the following year the people elected him to the same office, which he resigned before the term of two years expired. In 1886 Mr O'Neall became the Democratic candidate for Congress and was eleeted. Two years later he was re-elected and a third term was declined two years later. He is a profound lawyer, an able advocate and an esteemed citizen. In 1866 Mr. ('Neall married Alice A. Barton. Their children are Miles (., attorney; Annie E .; John H .; Hugh F .; Alice MI., and David W.
HON. A. M. HARDY, ex-member of Con- gress, is one of the prominent attorneys and citizens of Southern Indiana.
Mr. Hardy was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1847. His parents were William and Sarah (Merrill) Hardy, natives of Canada. Their son was graduated at the age of eighteen, from Victoria College, Canada, and in 1866 graduated, in the law, from the University of Toronto, and then located at Natchez, Miss., where he practiced law and edited a newspaper and became collector of Customs under President Grant. In 1877 Mr. Hardy located in Washington, D. C., where he held a position in the law de- partment of the pension burean till 1881. For some time thereafter he superintended the construction of the government post- offiee and custom honse at Paducah, Ky., and in 1885 when he became a citizen of Washington, Ind. In 1894 he became the Republican candidate for Congress and was elected ; became the candidate of his party two years later and was defeated.
ELISHA HYATT, deceased, was born in Mason county, Ky., October 4, 1809, and died at Washington, Ind., December 31, 1885. His parents, Thomas and Margaret Hyatt, were pioneers of Daviess County, coming to the county in 1823, and their son was reared on the farm. He made several flatboat trips to New Orleans, and late in the thirties began merchandising in Washington. For many years thereafter Elisha Hyatt was one
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of the most successful and prominent busi- ness men of Southern Indiana. He mar- ried Margaret Beazley, and they became the parents of the following children : Eliza- beth, Hiram, Lydia, Richard and Elisha.
HON. SAMUEL H. TAYLOR (deceased), was born January 25, 1837, in Cumber- land, M. D., where be was reared and edu- cated. Predilection led him to the profes- sion of law. He began his professional career in his native town, of which he was postmaster under President Buchanan's administration. He came to Washington, Ind., in 1864, and bere resided and prac- tieed law till his death occurred. He was an able lawyer and a prominent citizen. He was one of the organizers of the Wash- ington National Bank, of which he was vice president, cashier and director. He was twice elected Attorney of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1872 was elected Prose- cuting Attorney of the Vincennes Circuit. He was delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1872, 1876 and 1884. In 1878 he was elected representative of Daviess County in the State Legislature, and again elected in 1884.
He was a leader, a dignified and conrte- ous gentleman and forcible speaker. He married Miss Josette E. Johnson. who bore him six children, and survives him.
Mr. Taylor was appointed National Bank examiner for Indiana in June, 1885, and filled this office with marked ability.
('LINTON K. THARP, attorney at law, was born in Marion County, Ky., October 28, 1848, being a son of Callen and Bernece (Rowlins) Tharp, both natives of Ken- tucky.
Perry Tharp, Mr. Tharp's paternal grand- father, was a soldier in the Revolution.
The subject of this mention was reared in Kentneky and given a liberal education. Taking up the study of law he entered the law department of Michigan University at Ann Arbor and completed a two years' course, and was then admitted to the bar at Owens- boro, Ky., where he practiced till 1879, since which date he has been a resident at- torney of Washington, Ind. He is a Democrat ; an ex-member of the Kentucky and Indiana Legislatures. He was State Senator from Daviess and Martin Coun- ties one session, being elected in 1886, and resigned to accept the position as revenue agent under Cleveland. In 1891 he was
elected Mayor of Washington and held the office one term.
In 1882 Mr. Tharp married Emma Bur- ton, and unto the marriage two children have been born.
JOHN FITZ-GIBBONS, M. D., born in Ireland December 4, 1841, son of John and Ellen Fitz-Gibbons, is a leading physician of Daviess County. His father was a phy- sician, and the son, after learning to com- pound took up the study of medicine in Dublin and became a graduate in 1861. The following year he came to America ; located at Louisville, Ky., and there prac- ticed two years, and then located in Wash- ington, Ind., where he has since resided and practiced with pleasing success.
In 1875 he graduated from the medical department of the Indiana State University. In 1864 he married in Louisville, Wedding Leahy, who died in 1887, leaving five chil- dren. The Doctor was thrown upon his own resources at the age of sixteen years, but, notwithstanding the many difficulties he has encountered in life, he has accom- plished success, and long since has occupied a desirable rank among the best physicians of Southern Indiana.
JOSEPH KINNAMAN, of Odon, Daviess County, was born in this county, less than a mile north of the little city he is now do- ing business in, on the third day of Feb- ruary, 1848. The Kinnamans came into this county in 1838, headed by Peter Kinna- man, the grandfather of our subject, and settled near Odon. Eli Kinnaman, father of our subject, and son of Peter Kinnaman, was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., in 1822. His father left the "Keystone State " two years later and journeyed west- ward and took up his residence on a farm in Stark County, O. In the year 1838 he continued his journey toward the setting sun and made his permanent and final set- tlement in Daviess County. Upon his death in 1873 a part of the farm npon which he had reared his family fell to his son Eli, and upon it he, in turn, reared his family and died at the age of seventy-two.
Peter Kinnaman was born in the State of New Jersey and was the son of German parents. He was a farmer through life and made his start to the west very early in the present century.
Eli Kinnaman was married in Daviess County to Rachel M., a daughter of John
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Shields, a South Carolinian by birth, and a descendant of the "witty Irish." The children of the above union are; Joseph, Mary, wife of S. P. Winklepleek ; Samuel, Frederick and Martha, wite of J. F. Boyd.
Joseph Kinnaman had only such advant- ages as were common to the sons of farm- ers in moderate circumstances in his boy- hood and youth. Like his ancestors, when he separated from the paternal roof and began the " battle royal," it was as a farmer. In February, 1895, he left the farm and en- gaged with George D. Abraham, of Odon, in the hardware business. He retired from that business at the end of one year and engaged in the furniture business with Mr. Burrell, the firm being Kinnaman & Bur- rell.
September 30, 1883, Mr. Kinnaman mar- ried in this county Ruth, daughter of Hugh MeCoy. Their two children are: Omie and Porter.
Mr. Kinnaman is one of the working Re- publicans of his township. His father and grandfather were both Democrats up to the war, but changed parties upon the issues in- volved in that struggle.
Mr. Kinnaman has all along manifested an interest in and supported any enterprise calculated to do good for his locality, and in all matters involving the welfare of Odon he arrays himself on the side of progress.
Socially, Mr. Kinnaman is an agreeable gentleman ; he is highly regarded by his townsmen; is one of the leading Masons of Odon, having been a Master of his Lodge and a delegate to the State Grand Lodge session of 1881. He was a eonstable of Madison township for nine years, and in 1883 was a delegate to the Republican County Convention.
HON. WM. KENNEDY, of Daviess Coun- ty, was born at Philadelphia, Penn., Nov- ember 13, 1837. He is a son of James and Margaret (McNally) Kennedy. His father was born in County Tipperary, Ire- land, and the mother in County Longford, Ireland. James Kennedy was a son of Patrick and Margaret (Cummings) Ken- nedy, who emigrated from Ireland to the United States and settled in Philadelphia, where the mother died. The father subse- quently moved with his son James to Daviess County. Ind., where the remainder of his days was spent. His children num- bered five, as follows: Edward, John,
Thomas, Hannab and James. The last named was his oldest, and was a lad when his parents came to this country. He be- came a citizen of Daviess County in 1838. He located on a farm in Barr Township where he resided till his death, which oe- curred in April, 1879. His wife preceded him in death in March of 1867. He was the father of eight children, viz: John, Ellen, Mary A., Catherine, James, Mar- garet, Edward P. and William. The last named was reared on a farm and in the main farming has been his life pursuit. He first attended the country school and later completed a high school education at Mit- ehell, Ind. For ten years thereafter Mr. Kennedy was engaged in school teaching together with farming. February 26, 1867, he married Mary A., daughter of William and Mary (Graves) Beckett. She died in July 1874, leaving the following children : Anna M., Charles E., deceased, and Albert F.
April 29, 1878, Mr. Kennedy married the second time, wedding Ida M., daughter of James H. and Naney J. (Myers) Smith. She was born in Martin County July 2, 1857. She has borne him the following children : Alice A., deceased, Helen C., James W., Frederick W., John N., Paul A., Bernard C., Alice L. and Ada J. Mr. Kennedy and family are members of the Catholic Church, and himself a member of the Catholic Knights of America. In 1870 he was elected Treasurer of Daviess Coun- ty and was re-elected in 1872. In 1890 he was elected State Senator for a term of four years.
WILLIAM H. SANFORD, County Assessor of Daviess County, and a member of the real estate firm of Dosch & Sanford, is favorably known among the business men of Washington and vieinity He has gone in and out among them in his every day transactions both as boy and man and no man has yet uttered aught against him. He was born in this county November 27, 1859, and grew up two miles east of Wash- ington on a farm. He received sufficient education in the schools of his district, and in the Washington High School, having graduated from there in 1880, to equip him for ordinary business, and at twenty- two he came to Washington and entered the employ of Cable & Kauffman as weigh- master at their mines. In 1885 he was
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elected City Clerk to fill the unexpired term of George Signor. In 1888 he was appointed Deputy County Treasurer by J. B. Smith and served four years. He was then appointed Deputy County Recorder by John Dosch and served two years. In May, 1895, he engaged in the real estate business, including loans and insurance, as a member of the present firm. He is an active Democrat and was elected County Assessor in November, 1896, defeating his opponent by 581 votes and being the second highest majority received by Democratie candidates.
The Sanfords are among the pioneers of Daviess County. Our subject's grandfather, Hamletz Sanford, was the first of them in the county, and he came from Mason Coun- ty, Ky., about seventy years ago. He married Ann Clark. The Clarks were English people and went into Kentucky from Orange County, Va.
J. C. Sanford, father of William H., married Hannah Eads. Their children are Lucy, wife of J. B. Hale of Roca, Neb .; R. R. Sanford, of New Orleans, La .; Rev. E. E. of Martinville, Ind .; Mary ; Janie , William H .; Josie ; Pierce, and John, de- ceased.
Elijah Eads, our subject's maternal grandfather, was also one of the first to settle in Daviess County, and was a Justice of the Peace for many years. He was a gentleman of high repute, as was Hamlet Sanford, and both were successful farmers.
William H. Sanford was married October 6, 1887, to Rose E., daughter of Peter Berens. Their three children are Joseph B., Eugene and Mary.
Mr. Sanford is a high Odd Fellow, hav- ing received all the degrees that can be conferred, and is a member of the Grand Lodge.
GEORGE D. ABRAHAM, the leading hard- ware merchant of Odon, Ind., and well known throughout Daviess and Martin Counties as a sound and conservative busi- ness man, first entered the little village of Odon in 1866, just out of the army and a journeyman wagon maker in search of em- ployment. His uncle, John Ransom, who put up the first wagon shop in town, gave him work, and for the next fonr years he was so employed. He succeeded Mr. Ran- som at that time as proprietor of the shop and conducted it till 1881, when he had ac-
enmnlated sufficient funds to engage in merchandising, and together with Howard Crooke engaged in the hardware business. He sneceeded to the full ownership of the business in a short time, and conducted it successfully till 1888, when he sold his stock and went to Elmora and engaged in the general store business, building the first store there after the advent of the railroad, and where he still maintains a business, purely hardware. He returned to Odon and built the first briek store in the town and opened a general store with T. D. Slimp and B. D. Smiley as his partners, the firm being Abraham & Co. This firm did business for two years and was succeeded by John Haig & Son. Crooke and Abra- ham then opened a dry goods establishment here at Odon, and at the end of the year B. D. Smiley purchased the interest of Mr. ('rooke, and at the end of the next year Mr. Abraham sold his interest to Wm. Danner.
Mr. Abraham was appointed County As- sessor, being the first person to fill that office, and when his time expired in the fall of 1892 he again became a merchant at Odon. In 1895 he sold an interest to Jos- eph Kinnaman in his present hardware business, but bought him out again the next year and is now the sole owner of the stock. From 1893 to 1895 he was a partner with a Mr. McCoy in the boot and shoe business at this point, and they were succeeded by James H. Garten.
When Mr. Abraham came to Odon it was a small hamlet of perhaps 150 people. The only merchants in it were Correll & Son and Crooke & Smith.
The only church in town served both for church and school. Rev. Littell, who had a store near the village, sold goods six days in the week and preached salvation to the people of Odon on Sunday. Clem Correll was then the Postmaster and the mail was brought in on horseback.
When George Abraham struck Odon he had $5 in money and a horse. While this was his actual capital, upon which alone he could receive eredit, his other and more valuable stock in trade to him was his ex- perience. He had served three years in the army and had seen the " struggle " from the standpoint of an actual participant, and this, together with his natural turn, had given him an independence and a confidence
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not common to all. He has passed through the crisis and panies and years of disaster and has come out of it all with an aecumu- lation sufficient for his wants when he shall have retired from business. He has erected two fine briek store rooms in Odon recent- ly ; he owns other property in the town and a good farm near by.
Mr. Abraham was born in East Liver- pool, O., October 16, 1844. He bad no sehooling, and even learned to write while in the army. He enlisted in Company I, 65th Indiana Volunteers, and August 1, 1862, went to Henderson, Ky., and spent the next eleven months. The regiment was then ordered to Knoxville, Tenn., and participated in that memorable siege. In the spring of 1863 his command joined Sherman's army at Dalton, Ga., and was with him through all his campaign about Atlanta, and when that city had surrendered the 65th was sent back with Gen. Scofield to look after Hood in Tennessee. They encountered him at Franklin and at Nash- ville, whipping him at the former place and destroying his army at the latter. The 65th, with other troops, was sent east to Ft. Fisher, N. C., joined Terry and aided in the capture of Wilmington and met Gen. Sher- man at Goldsboro and was with him at the surrender of Gen. Johnston at Greens- burg.
Mr. Abraham was mustered out of service June 22, 1865.
Mr. Abraham is a son of Daniel Abra- ham, born in Jefferson County, O., in 1814. He married Elizabeth Ransom, a daughter of Ahida Ransom, of Trumbull County, O., but born in Vermont.
John Abraham, the grandfather of George D., was born in Westmoreland County, Penn. Daniel Abraham came to Indiana in 1853 and settled in Green County. He moved to Daviess County in 1859, and re- sided till 1871, when he moved to Elk Falls, Kan., and there died in 1875. His children were : George D., Mary E., wife of John P. Eddy, of Chanute, Kan., and two others now deceased.
George D. Abraham was first married December 22, 1869, his wife being Emma, daughter of J. V. Smith, the veteran news- paper man of Odon. Mrs. Abraham died in 1874, leaving one child, Cora. In the fall of 1875 Mr. Abraham married Adaline, daughter of Joseph Blough. She died July
23, 1892, leaving : Nora, Daniel, Wilmer, Mabel and Waldon.
Mr. Abraham is one of the leaders of the Republican party in his township. He is decidedly a man full of energy and endur- ance, and the motto he seems to have fol- lowed through life is, " make hay while the sun shines."
REV. JOHN MCCABE, pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Daviess County, near Loogootee, Ind., was born in Covington, Ky., December 8, 1854. He is a son of Michael and Mary (Byrne) Me- Cabe, who were born in Ireland, and who came to the United States about 1852, and were married in Covington, Kentucky. They subsequently moved to Aurora, Ind., where the father died. The mother sur- vives and makes her home with the subject of this sketch. These parents had seven children, viz: Mary J., Ellen, Catherine, Michael, Rev. Dennis of Indianapolis, Margaret and John. The last named was the oldest of the group. He was educated at St. Joseph College at Bardstown, Ky., and at St. Meinrad's College, Spencer Coun- ty, Ind. He was ordained priest February 2, 1878, by Archbishop Purcell, and was immediately given charge of St. John's Church in Warrick County, Ind., with mis- sions at Boonville and Newburgh. One year later he was transferred to St. Ann's Church at Terre Haute, Ind. Here be re- mained until July 3, 1885, at which date he became pastor of St. Ann's Church at New Castle, Ind., with a mission at St. Rose Church of Knightstown. Here he remained until February 1, 1896, when he was transferred to his present charge. The church over which he now presides has a membership of about 130 families, and is in a prosperous condition under the efficient management of Rev. MeCabe.
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